Latest Abigail Williams News

Below is our complete Abigail Williams news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.

Abigail Williams will kick off an East Coast headlining tour with Wolvhammer and Amiensus later this week to close out the year.

Set to begin November 30th in Somerville, Massachusetts and close on December 17th in Olympia, Washington, the band will level a total of fifteen venues. This latest jaunt follows Abigail Williams' brutal, month-long North American tour alongside Belphegor, Origin, and Shining this past summer.

Additionally, Abigail Williams has been diligently plotting new material for the follow-up to 2015 album "The Accuser" (check out our review here). The as-yet-untitled long player will be released sometime next year with full details to be unveiled in the coming months. In the meantime, a brand-new track entitled "The Final Failure" has come online and can be heard below. More...

Following a brutal month-long North American tour with Belphegor, Origin, and Shining this Summer, Abigail Williams now confirms a new set of East Coast tour dates alongside Wolvhammer and Amiensus.

This newly confirmed tour will see the caravan raiding the East Coast of the continent with thirteen new dates announced for late November into mid-December.

The first show takes place in Rochester on November 29th, followed by sets in Portland, Somerville, Montreal, Syracuse, Manchester, Brooklyn, Clifton, Frederick, Pittsburgh, Dayton, Chicago, and Minneapolis through December 11th.

Abigail Williams is also plotting material for a new LP to be released in 2017 to follow latest album "The Accuser" (reviewed here). Further info will be announced as it is available in the months ahead. More...

I always liked Belphegor since the first time I saw them live. So having them appear on a really solid tour package with Origin and Abigail Williams was a show which I absolutely had to see. It was my first time seeing them since I caught them with Keep of Kallessin back in 2011 as I spent 2013-2015 outside of the metal scene, first asphyxiating in absolute misery before returning to school to earn a degree.

The majority of the bands playing were black metal and while I could have worn a shirt for Immortal, Melechesh or Primordial, I chose to wear my Converge shirt. Nothing sticks it to the Wicker Park-dwelling beards and flannel crowd more than proudly wearing the shirt of the band responsible for the 2000s metalcore boom to a black metal show. I proudly felt like Homer Simpson wearing a Rastafarian hat at Lollapalooza.

The black metal day-ruiners from Abigail Williams will kick off a month-long North American live assault this Friday.

Set to embark in Olympia, Washington, the journey will commence with seven headlining dates before the band joins forces with Fleshgod Apocalypse and Carach Angren where they'll decimate nearly two dozen cities, the entire caravan of chaos coming to a close with three final headlining show in Wichita, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

These tour dates are in support of latest album "The Accuser" (reviewed here). Catch Abigail Williams live: More...

After revealing the cover art and details for new album "King" (full info here) earlier today, now Fleshgod Apocalypse has announced a string of upcoming tour dates with Abigail Williams and Carach Angren. Full dates are available below.

Comments Fleshgod Apocalypse: "We are super stoked to finally return to the US and Canada! To celebrate the release of our upcoming album King, we are going to play a special show for you. Lots of new elements and features will be presented during an extended set, which will include songs from Labyrinth and several classics! Also, it will be great to share the stage with our dutch brothers from Carach Angren, and the crazy american black metal act Abigail Wiliams. We already know it's going to be a blast! See you there!"

Carach Angren adds: "We are very thrilled to return the horror to the USA and Canada! After bringing Death to the Phantom Ship in Florida we will set foot on mainland for the entire month of February. Our first visitation last year was met with your incredible support and now we will finally bring This Is No Fairytale alive to you, embedded in well known chapters from our previous horror stories."

Captured in just five days by Sorceron at the band’s home studio in Olympia, Washington, the eight-track offering is fittingly bleak, dark, and nihilistic and features a guest appearance by Neill Jameson (Krieg, Twilight) as well as the psychedelic cover craftings of Portland-based illustrator/tattoo artist, Stevie Floyd (Dark Castle, Taurus). More...

American black metal legion Abigail Williams today premieres a new music video and song titled "Nuummite," closing off the band's upcoming new album "The Accuser," due out in stores on October 30th via Candlelight Records. The track listing is as follows:

American black metal legion Abigail Williams premieres a new song titled "Lost Communion", taken from the band's upcoming new album "The Accuser", out in stores on October 30th via Candlelight Records.

American black metal legion Abigail Williams premieres a new song titled "Path Of Broken Glass", taken from the band's upcoming new album "The Accuser", out in stores on October 30th via Candlelight Records.

"It took three years to make this because I'm an indecisive bastard and I didn't want to make the same record again," confides Sorceron of the lengthy gap between full-lengths. "It felt unnatural to try and reproduce what I did on [2012's] 'Becoming,'" he continues, "which, up to that point I felt was our strongest album. So once again we are covering new ground with this release. The songs are the most personal to date with the themes mostly being about living shitty, addictions, sex, loss and failure all through the eyes of a nihilistic occultist shithead."

Abigail Williams just announced an autumn tour with Today Is The Day. Set to begin September 11th at Metro Bar in Salt Lake City, the tour will visit 30 cities before it concludes October 16th in San Francisco.

Vocalist/guitarist Sorceron recently noted, "after a year off from touring, we are looking forward to getting in the van again.”

Currently finishing up a run of headline dates, Abigail Williams has now completed work on a forthcoming new album, with a release date expected for announcement in the coming weeks. More...

With Abigail Williams nearing the recording completion of a forthcoming new album, the band has announced an upcoming West Coast tour.

Set to kick off July 11th, the tour will hit fourteen cities before wrapping up in Seattle on July 27th. The tour announcement follows the recent release of the special 4-disc collection, "From Legend To Becoming" available now in stores nationwide.

"After a year off from touring and working on our new record, we are looking forward to getting in the van again,” says vocalist/guitarist Sorceron. Continuing he notes, “we will be playing lots of new material from the upcoming release as well as our favorites from the past."

Sorceron has been keeping busy the last year working on new material for Abigail Williams as well participating in other recording projects - Lord Mantis, Missing - and serving as producer and engineer on other recordings. “Musically this album is very diverse,” he said. “the overall vibe is way more negative compared to our last album. Artistically this is the best line-up I’ve had the pleasure to work with over the years.” More...

Abigail Williams is currently putting the finishing touches on a new full-length album to follow 2012 release "Becoming" (reviewed here). The band has also announced a string of upcoming summer shows, commenting:

"Here are our new tour dates for July. This will probably be the last headlining shows we'll be doing for awhile, as we're gonna focus on some support runs. We'll be playing a lot of new stuff off of the forthcoming record, so don't miss out."

The two songs were produced by Sorceron, recorded mainly in the band’s practice space in Chicago and mixed where he now lives in L.A. Before they are finalized for the album, there will be different mixes and masters, and possibly some re-tracking.

Say vocalist Ken Sorceron about the two rough mixes:" “Forever Kingdom of Dirt” is rough, raw, and grim, much of it sounding like a hopeless night at an overworked trauma unit, with more broken bodies than there are hands to save them. It begins with a fusillade of blasting and then pulls back into a bleak, slow-rolling rhythm with an otherworldly ambiance. These divergent states trade places, the assault and the fallout, until the mid-point - when the song begins to transform after a harrowing shriek. And what follows, like a beating heart at the bitter black core of the song, is an absolutely killer melodic hook, a rocking riff accompanied by a rumbling drum beat that’s going to infiltrate the memory of anyone who hears it. You should also prepare yourself to be scalded by a vocal acid bath - as usual, N. Imperial holds nothing back."

"The shimmering guitar solo at the beginning of “Will, Wish and Desire” digs the hooks in even earlier than the preceding song, and the pulsating vitality of the music never lets up. Anchored by a compulsive rock beat and bursts of double-bass, the song drives with infectious energy, with flashing guitars and sweeping melody." More...

American horde Abigail Williams - which will release a fourth studio album later this year - is currently crusading through the Eastern half of the country on tour now.

The Stateside trek continues through April 12th. Abigail Williams will then head back out on the road in North America from mid-May through mid-June with Lecherous Nocturne and Panzerfaust. Catch the band live:

Texas Independence Festival has announced the addition of We Are The Riot to its lineup. We Are The Riot consists of Coal Chamber members Meegs Rascon and Mikal Cox. The group joins Behemoth, Goatwhore, 1349, Inquisition, Black Crown Initiate, Wayne Static of Static-X, Abigail Williams and many more.

Abigail Williams has checked in with the following announcement about officially recruiting a new guitarist:

"Please welcome Jeff Wilson to Abigail Williams as an official band member. Jeff has been working with us for the last year or so and will be playing guitar on the upcoming tours and the new album. Many of you will know him from other bands like Wolvhammer, Chrome Waves, and Liar In Wait, amongst others...

"For those of you wondering, Ian Jekelis is still in the band as a creative force but isn't playing live shows anymore. He also sat out the last two Abigail Williams tours in 2012. This might seem odd to some people, but for us it's perfectly natural to have a long-time band member who doesn't tour but is involved on other levels. With the addition of Jeff, it all means even more awesome guitar textures on the forthcoming releases.

"Filling in on bass and drums for the upcoming tour will be our friends John Porada (of Terminate) and Jesse Beahler, respectively."